Monthly Archives: November 2012
December – a time to post nice things
We all know that Christmas is in December. I personally do not celebrate Christmas. For those that don’t know, I do not worship any Pagan Holidays. I do respect the spirit of Christmas. People give to those in need, people seem to be nicer and many people make peace with those they dislike. It’s sad the rest of the year most people do the exact opposite.
My goal is to write a new blog daily saying something nice about others or admitting a past mistake. Blogs such as “Ugly girl of the Week”, “Reviews” and others will also be written. I may miss a few days there and there. I’ve been working 54 hours and more a week lately and I’ve little time to do anything other than work, the gym and rest.
Readers out there should do the same. Write an old buddy. Give to the poor. Tell an enemy you’re sorry. Hug a parent one extra time. Do something unselfish for a change. Let’s all be a little less selfish these next few weeks. A little good can go a long way.
UofL Fans – more proof of a fake fanbase yet again!
(You think these losers can’t sink any lower? Yes they can!)
Do you remember when U of L joined the Big East? Pitino told the world how the Big East was now the best basketball conference of all-time. U of L fans screamed how much better the Big East was than the SEC (even though the SEC has more National Titles in basketball). All UK (and SEC fans) heard was how the Big East would crush and destroy all other conferences. Good times. Good times.
Today, as we speak, the Big East is dead. Syracuse and Pittsburgh decided to leave for the ACC earlier this year. Rutgers left for the Big Ten. Last year West Virginia joined the Big 12. About half the teams that were supposed to join the Big East turned their backs and decided to stay in the MWC. The Big East is already considered a joke in college football and by the looks of things, it won’t be much better in basketball. So what did U of L do? They jumped ship also. Funny.
I understand why U of L left the Big East. They had to. I have no issue with that. I only mock what U of L fans said for years about the overrated Big East and what their own basketball coach, a has been, had stated. Let’s quote Ricky! This is exactly why I mock U of L fans daily. They are the biggest hypocrites in all of college sports.
Ricky said UConn’s interest in the ACC “the dumbest thing he’s ever heard of.”
Yet you are now joining the “dumbest thing you’ve ever heard of.”
“The ACC, namely certain basketball coaches, did not like the amount of exposure Big East basketball was getting nationally and the amount of tournament teams selected the past couple of seasons,” he wrote.
I guess Ricky likes being among the cowards of the ACC.
“Don’t run away with a girl after one date when you’ve been dating someone else for three or four years. You’ve been dating this woman for 30 years, show a little respect,” Rick said when Syracuse left the Big East.
For a man that cheats on his wife, pays her to keep quiet and then pays her to kill an unborn child, what a stupid statement.
I guess when a fanbase and a team is second fiddle in their state; you do anything to get attention. Being a UK fan, I don’t understand. I enjoy watching my team play in the best conference in all of sports. I also enjoy watching a team that can win a National Title in a major sport. Sorry a U of L fans. Most people don’t recall 1986.
Are the women of today blind?
I am a straight male. I am cool with my sexuality and have no issue in saying another man is good looking. For instance, I wish I looked like Brad Pitt or Tom Brady. If I did, I would be getting laid daily by lovely women. Women use to have good taste in men. What the hell is wrong with the women of today? Have you seen the men that are labeled “sex symbols” today? What a joke!
Ten years ago he was the “standard” for being a male sex symbol. I agree. I want to punch this pretty boy right between his eyes.
The women of today claim this rat-face is sexy….He looks like my ass with a turd hanging from it.
About 20 years ago he was the man all women dreamed of. I can see why………..
What else needs to be said?
This is my mom’s man. Good looking guy. Ask any woman from 1950-1980. They would all agree.
Good football player, yes. Good looking, hell no. Sure he has tons of muscle but the dude looks like he purposely beats his face into the sidewalk for fun.
Casey Anthony back in the news
The only crime she was guilty of was stealing my heart –
Someone used Casey Anthony’s computer to search for fool-proof suffocation methods on the day her 2-year-old daughter Caylee was last seen alive.
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Florida sheriff’s office that investigated the disappearance of Casey Anthony’s 2-year-old daughter overlooked evidence that someone in their home did a Google search for “fool-proof” suffocation methods on the day the girl was last seen alive.
Orange County sheriff’s Capt. Angelo Nieves said Sunday that the office’s computer investigator missed a June 16, 2008, Google search for “fool-proof” suffocation methods. The agency’s admission was first reported by Orlando television station WKMG. It’s not known who performed the search. The station reported it was done on a browser primarily used by the 2-year-old’s mother, Casey Anthony, who was acquitted of the girl’s murder in 2011.
Anthony’s attorneys argued during trial that Casey Anthony helped her father, George Anthony, cover up the girl’s drowning in the family pool.
WKMG reports that sheriff’s investigators pulled 17 vague entries only from the computer’s Internet Explorer browser, not the Mozilla Firefox browser commonly used by Casey Anthony. More than 1,200 Firefox entries, including the suffocation search, were overlooked.
Whoever conducted the Google search looked for the term “fool-proof suffication,” misspelling “suffocation,” and then clicked on an article about suicide that discussed taking poison and putting a bag over one’s head.
The browser then recorded activity on the social networking site MySpace, which was used by Casey Anthony but not her father.
A computer expert for Anthony’s defense team found the search before the trial. Her lead attorney, Jose Baez, first mentioned the search in his book about the case but suggested it was George Anthony who conducted the search after Caylee drowned because he wanted to kill himself.
Not knowing about the computer search, prosecutors had argued Caylee was poisoned with chloroform and then suffocated by duct tape placed over her mouth and nose. The girl’s body was found six months after she disappeared in a field near the family home and was too decomposed for an exact cause of death to be determined.
Prosecutors presented evidence that someone in the Anthony home searched online for how to make chloroform, but Casey Anthony’s mother, Cindy, claimed on the witness stand that she had done the searches by mistake while looking up information about chlorophyll.
Many jurors apparently went into hiding amid public outrage over the verdict and refused to comment, but two have said prosecutors couldn’t conclusively prove how Caylee died.
Prosecutors Linda Drane Burdick and Jeff Ashton didn’t respond to emails from The Associated Press on Sunday.
But Ashton told WKMG that “it’s just a shame we didn’t have it. This certainly would have put the accidental death claim in serious question.”
Baez didn’t respond to phone or email messages Sunday from The Associated Press but told WKMG that he expected prosecutors to bring up the search at trial.
“When they didn’t, we were kind of shocked,” Baez, who no longer represents Anthony, told the station. Her attorney, Cheney Mason, who was also on the trial team, didn’t return an email message from AP Sunday, and his office answering service refused to take a phone message.
Hector Camacho dies at age 50
Not a fan, but what a shock. I loved watching him get beaten to a pulp by Julius Caesar Chavez. Boxing did lose one of it’s biggest names of all-time today.
His death was reported by Dr. Ernesto Torres, the director of the Centro Médico trauma center in Puerto Rico, who said Camacho had a heart attack and died a short time later after being taken off life support. He was declared brain dead on Thursday.
The police said that Camacho was shot in the left side of the face on Tuesday night as he sat in a black Ford Mustang with a friend, The Associated Press reported. The bullet fractured his vertebrae and was lodged in his shoulder when he was taken to the Puerto Rico Medical Center. The friend, Adrian Mojica Moreno, was also killed.
The police said that two men fled the scene in a sport utility vehicle but that no arrests had been made. They said that nine bags of cocaine were found in Moreno’s pockets and that a 10th was found open in the car.
Fighting in bouts sanctioned by professional boxing’s myriad organizing bodies, Camacho, who was widely known as Macho Camacho, won titles as a super featherweight (maximum 130 pounds), a lightweight (135 pounds) and a junior welterweight (140 pounds). In his last title bout, at age 35 in 1997, he fought at 147 pounds and lost to the welterweight champion Oscar De La Hoya.
Terrifically agile and fast afoot, Camacho had a sackful of canny tricks gleaned from his teenage years as a street fighter; he was known occasionally to spin his opponents 180 degrees and reach around to punch them from behind. Rather than a slugger, he was a precise, impossibly rapid-fire puncher and deft counterpuncher who early on drew the admiration of the boxer who was then the avatar of hand speed, Sugar Ray Leonard.
“Not only quick, but accurate,” Leonard said in 1982 after watching Camacho, then a super featherweight, dispatch Johnny Sato in four rounds. He added: “I told him that people are always asking who’s going to take my place. I told him he could.”
Cool drinks
When it comes to drinking I’m very simple. I love Irish Whiskey neat or on the rocks, mostly neat. I have a great respect for a Kentucky Bourbon on the rocks. I also love a good European beer from countries like Ireland, England, Scotland, and Holland and of course, Germany to name a few. I’m also a fan of American micro-brews. They do such a better job than corporate American beer companies when it comes to flavor and quality.
I am not into most mix-drinks. My dad once said it best – “Mixed-drinks are for women and queers.” Of course he was mostly joking but his point is well taken. Even though I hate most mixed-drinks, I do like a few of them every now and then. Below are a list of some of mine and how to make them. Enjoy and drink one for me!
Irish Coffee
Combine whiskey, sugar
and coffee in a mug and stir to dissolve. Float cold cream gently on top. Do not mix.
and coffee in a mug and stir to dissolve. Float cold cream gently on top. Do not mix.Irish Car Bomb (Give me a break people, I know it’s not really a mixed-drink)
Add the Bailey’s and Jameson to a shot glass, layering the Bailey’s on the bottom. Pour the Guinness into a pint glass or beer mug 3/4 of the way full and let settle. Drop the shot glass into the Guinness and chug. If you don’t drink it fast enough it will curdle and increasingly taste worse.
White Russian
Pour vodka and coffee liqueur over ice cubes in an old-fashioned glass. Fill with light cream and serve.
Margarita
1 1/2 oz tequila 1/2 ozpremium triple sec (preferably Cointreau) 1 oz lime juice
Rum the rim of a cocktail glass with lime juice, and dip in salt. Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into the glass, and serve.
Irish Flag
In a cordial glass or shot glass, pour carefully in the order given, so that each ingredient floats on the preceding one.
Thanksgiving – one thing I am thankful for (other than my family)
I have not eaten a Thanksgiving dinner with my own family in 6 or 7 years. It’s not that I am not close with my family. I am close with my parents, two of my sisters and some of my nieces and nephews. Sadly, our family’s Thanksgiving is held at my sister’s house that I do not speak with. I would rather skip dinner there because of her hatred toward other family members, her bad mouthing of other family members and a lot more drama that is unnecessary.
Three years ago my friend Shannon invited me to her mom’s house for Thanksgiving. That was the first time in a few years that I had sat down with other people for Thanksgiving. Even though most holidays are just days to me, I sort of forgotten how great it feels to be around people you care about. This year made the third year in a row I have ate dinner over there. It’s like being around family away from family.
I’m very thankful that I have a great group of friends. Actually, they are the best friends anyone could ever have. They are some of the most giving and caring people I’ve ever met. They treat people like family. They go out of their way even when it’s not necessary. It’s hard to leave. When you try to leave most of them beg you to stay. Most people can’t wait when guests leave. Not them. They want you to eat more turkey, fill your gut with sweets and drink another beer.
Thanksgiving to me is just another day. I only care about it now because it gives me a chance to be around the closest thing I have besides my own family. I could care less about the tradition behind Thanksgiving. Getting a hug from Kathy, having Keith make one of his inside jokes about me or seeing Shannon smile is all I care about. I don’t even like most Thanksgiving food. I can say for the third straight year that there’s no other place I would rather be than where I was. That is what I’m thankful for.
Ugly girl of the week #48
Todd Kelly – loser is now out of jail
LOUISVILLE, KY. (WDRB) — It’s a story of lies and betrayal — a well-known Louisville DJ turned into a con man, stealing thousands of dollars and faking a disease he never had.
Just months after he was released from prison, Todd Smith, once known as Todd Kelly, broke his silence exclusively to WDRB News.
Todd Smith is getting a second chance many of his victims will not. He was freed from prison just four months ago after serving four years behind bars at Fort Dix in New Jersey.
When asked what prison was like, he replied, “It was difficult because you’re around people you don’t know. Some are there for harsher crimes, some for less. You have to learn to adjust and I did…It was a learning experience, made me appreciate life and what I had before I went in.”
That included a job as the promotions director and DJ known as Todd Kelly at WDJX Radio. In 2001, he announced he was stricken with a deadly disease — ALS. Also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, it gradually robs its victims of the ability to move, and eventually to breathe.
He soon started the Todd Kelly Foundation to raise money for research. But suspicion grew when Smith showed no symptoms after several years. He eventually admitted he faked having the disease, and that the foundation was a scam. He pleaded guilty to stealing from people who thought they were donating money to help cure a killer disease.
“I guess it’s greed,” he says. “It’s just at that point thinking about myself, and that’s the hardest part because I care for others.”
He continues, “It just happened. It just sort of, it was there and it was easy. I can’t explain it. It wasn’t premeditated…It’s almost like when you’re told not to take a cookie out of the cookie jar and you take one and you like it so then you go back and take another and another and it just spiraled out of control.”
Smith used the donated money for vacations, alcohol, limos, meals at restaurants, and bills but wouldn’t discuss the details.
“Some of the money,” he says, “did go directly to ALS and some things went to cancer stuff, but it didn’t go where it should have went and should have gone to ALS, and I take responsibility for that. That was my fault, and it just was used for other things….It just went for myself basically. When you start doing it, you start paying for this, paying for that.”
Smith says a muscular disease that contributed to his father’s death is part of why he chose to fake ALS, a similar disease: “I think because part of it was because of my Dad. He had Guillain–Barré — it wasn’t the same thing, but along the same lines….That’s where I went wrong. I should have done it the right way and raised awareness for that.”
Louisville's Strange Brew 